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Guilt weighs down —\
daughter of elderly mom
DEAR ABBY: My
92-year-old mother lives
alone, still drives and man
ages by herself with a feral
cat she took in. She’s deal
ing with heart failure, but
doing well on her meds. 1
_am 70, an only child, mar
ried, retired and live six
hours away.
We go to see her four
times a year and stay for a
week in our RV. We talk on
the phone once a week and
email a couple times in
between phone calls.
Monm says she’s staying
in her house as long as she
is able. She has nice neigh
bors who will do anything
for her, plus a lawn/snow
service. We have told her
she’s welcome to come live
with us, but she loves her
independence and has the
cat to take care of.
She goes to her church
group, senior citizens group
and gets her nails done
every three weeks. She’s
"busier than lam socially."
But I feel consumed by
guilt that she’s so far away
and afraid that each visit
may be our last.
My husband says he isn’t
moving, and he has his own
He doesn’t want to stay
with Mom more than a
week because we end up
watching QVC with her all
afternoon. When we left
last week, she said, “My
friends told me I hardly
ever see you, and I hope
1 don’t know what to do.
Am 1 doing enough? We
pay her taxes and phone/
bills (car repairs). But I'm
not there to drop in the way
most of her friends’ chil
dren do, who never moved
away after high school. —
GUILT-RIDDEN IN
DEAR GUILT
RIDDEN: You are doing as
much as you can for your
mother. Her friends should
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DEAR ABBY
_Jeanne Phillips
not judge because their
family situations are not the:
same as yours. You stated
that you email her in
between phone calls. Ask
your mother if she would
-be open to video chatting
(Skype, Face Time, etc.) in
between those phone calls.
That way you could see
each other’s faces, and it
might help her feel less dis
tant from you.
DEAR ABBY: My hus
band and 1 have omly
recently recovered finan
cially from the economy
crashing. We lost our car,
our home and filed bank
ruptcy. Thankfully, we now
have some savings ana
“debt other than our new
home.
It has been 10 years since
we had a real vacation, so
we are planning a cruise.
My problem is 1 mentioned
it to some friends and fami
ly members. Four of them
have now asked us to bring
back souvenirs for them. I
feel it’s presumptuous. I
don’t want to spend my
vacation running around
buying other people stuff.
Am I bgwdy sensi
tive or are they being impo
lite? And how can I politely
refuse? —FRUSTRATED
INTHEUSA
'DEAR FRUSTRATED:
You are not overly sensi
tive. Tell those folks that
your excursion schedule
will be tight and you won’t
have time to do much shop
ping — even for l%onr
selves. It’s the truth, I'll bet.
P.S. And when you
return, be dincxut.abom
flashing -;y souvenirs you
pick up for yourselves
along the way!
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